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TIL that during WW2, Germany made margarine from coal

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7r6PL TIL that Wellington awarded the Key to the City to a cat named Mittens, for "bringing happiness, laughter and coolness to the capital – and putting the city on the map internationally with his feline antics."
kra5 TIL that there is a counterfeit egg industry in China, and one person can make approximately 1500 of them per day.
pYmBA TIL that in 1956, the US Air Force lost control of an unmanned drone and tried to shoot it down. Jet fighters fired 208 rockets at the drone. They all missed; the rockets started fires on the ground, and the drone crashed by itself when it ran out of fuel.
awXWM TIL the Bridgestone tire company is named after its founder Shōjirō Ishibashi, whose surname means "stone bridge" in Japanese
78YE7 TIL that behind Mosquitoes and Snakes, Dogs kill the most humans per year.